Reader, I want you to fail more. I want you to make giant mistakes. Because mistakes and failures are the launchpad and stepping stones towards the life you want to create. I want you to push yourself to do something you've never done before, at least once every week. I want you to learn something new. I want you to talk to someone new. I want you to say "YES" to the things you want to experience and create in this lifetime. I want you to launch yourself into the life you envision for your...
9 days ago • 6 min read
Hey Reader, In the past 3-4 years, I have watched more real crime and serial killers documentaries than ever before in my life. The reason? Simple. My boyfriend absolutely looooovessssss them! Let's say that his Netflix home page's results are pretty different from mine, LOL. Honestly, when we started dating, I wasn't sure if we could ever watch TV together. I'm basically the opposite: a fantasy genre lover (think Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, The Hidden Legacy, kind...
16 days ago • 7 min read
Hey Reader, This past week, I started going to the gym and doing some strength-training workouts again after taking a break for most of October to focus solely on running. And though this may sound weird, I had honestly missed being in a gym environment. The ironic thing is that as soon as I registered to go to the gym, I felt that same resistance that always appears when I know I'm about to do something hard or uncomfortable, especially after not doing it for a couple of weeks. Once I got...
23 days ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader, I didn't know what to write to you this week. Not because I have nothing to say to you, but because many things in my life have remained much the same as in the past few weeks. I have been running a lot more lately, I have been trying to cook more at home with new recipes and ingredients, I have been eating (and craving) a lot more fruit and complex carbs from all the running, I have been working on recording and editing new Podcast episodes, and I have been 'trying' (keyword...
30 days ago • 7 min read
Hey Reader, A few weeks ago, I did something I never thought I would do. I literally did a semi-nude photoshoot as a way to celebrate my 35th birthday. You can see the results HERE. The thing about growth is that we all know it involves getting outside our comfort zones, but we often forget that to do that, we need to overcome the resistance and the extreme discomfort that comes with stepping outside of anything we have known before. I tell you this because when I see these kinds of artistic,...
about 1 month ago • 10 min read
Hey Reader, I recently decided to run my first full marathon. Honestly, for a while now, this is something that I have said that I want to do, but I have never fully committed to doing it. Three years ago, I ran my first half-marathon. Since then, I have run several half-marathons, always thinking to myself that the next one I did would be a full marathon. The truth is that because I knew how much time and energy I would need to dedicate to training for a full marathon as opposed to just...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Hey Reader, What if it’s not “good” or “bad”? What if things didn’t always have to be white or black? What if most things that happen in your life are simply that, events, circumstances, experiences that happen, and how we treat them, how we approach them, how we perceive them is what makes them “positive”, “negative”, or even “insignificant” in our lives? This is just a simple reminder that how we choose to see the things that happen in our lives has more power in how we experience them than...
about 2 months ago • 12 min read
Hey Reader, Yesterday, during a yoga class, the teacher discussed the importance of coherence in our lives. She encouraged us to ask ourselves, "Is there coherence between what you want, what you say (to yourself and to others), and what you do and how you behave?" My first thought afterwards was, "Do I even know what I really want? Because I think that's where we often get stuck. We don't allow ourselves the permission to ask what we truly want to get out of this one wonderful, terrifying,...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Hey Reader, A couple of weeks ago, a girl who didn’t like my scatterbrained, and honestly, a little bit clumsy, and unpunctual self let me know about her discontent with my presence and “way of being”, I guess. She literally said, “You live in Jenny’s world and I’m not about Jenny’s world at all”. Since then, I have been thinking about “Jenny’s world”. The truth is that I’m non-confrontational to my core. I strive to avoid confrontation, the best I can. And so for many things, I prefer to...
2 months ago • 8 min read